Data Referential Platform, Product Owner

Data Referential Platform, Product Owner

Euronext

Euronext is the leading pan-European market infrastructure, connecting European economies to global capital markets, to accelerate innovation and sustainable growth. It operates regulated exchanges in Belgium, France, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway and Portugal.

With close to 2,000 listed issuers and around 6.9 trillion in market capitalization as of end December 2021, it has an unmatched blue chip franchise and a strong diverse domestic and international client base. Euronext operates regulated and transparent equity and derivatives markets, one of Europe’s leading electronic fixed income trading markets and is the largest center for debt and funds listings in the world. Its total product offering includes Equities, FX, Exchange Traded Funds, Warrants & Certificates, Bonds, Derivatives, Commodities and Indices.

The Group provides a multi-asset clearing house through Euronext Clearing, and custody and settlement services through Euronext Securities central securities depositories in Denmark, Italy, Norway and Portugal. Euronext also leverages its expertise in running markets by providing technology and managed services to third parties. In addition to its main regulated market, it also operates a number of junior markets, simplifying access to listing for SMEs.

Euronext Digital Office

The Euronext Digital Office is the group function responsible for setting and sharing digital strategic vision for the Euronext group, while driving digital transformation and give real substance to the digital strategy and its implementation by delivering digital platforms and solutions across the organization. We offer the opportunity to work with a team operating in a fast-paced growing, wide business and technical environment - distributed in Paris and Milan - where the personal and professional growth of each team member is accelerated by their sense of commitment, ownership, accountability and belief in challenging every day the standard way of doing things.

Role Summary & Key Responsibilities

As part of its data strategy to grow as a data-driven organization, ENX launched in 2020 a data referential transformation program to re-think its approach in terms of client intelligence. Through the Client Master Data (CMD) project a first milestone has been recently achieved. The project allowed to implement a centralized client data model for Euronext leveraging on a Master Data Management product and existing data sources. The project also introduced a flexible and scalable data lake solution on AWS plugged with a data visualization tool (Power BI) and the CRM System (Dynamics 365).

As next step the ‘Euronext Referential’ project is going to be launched by Q1 2022 with the aim to enhance the current Client Master Data Management (CMD) solution and continue the journey to deliver a full client data ‘360 degree view’, global reporting across Euronext network and grow as a data-driven organization.

Role & Responsibilities

Reporting directly to the Group Chief Digital Officer the Data Referential Platform Product Owner will contribute to the implementation and delivery of the’ Euronext Data Referential’ strategy related goals and expected results.

This role needs to combine proven technical, program and change management skills and ability to bring multi-disciplinary teams together to enable successful collaboration and positive outcomes to contribute to the Euronext Referential’ Project objectives’ achievement.

As a Product Owner, he / she will be accountable for :

Leading stakeholder working group to determine collective requirements and ensuring all stakeholders needs are represented in solution
Organizing collection and support the consolidation of requirements with various stakeholders
Project management processes that support the efficient running and delivery of the project
Ensuring the deadlines are met, responsible for tracking timelines, milestones and checklists, maintaining project controls and providing initial support to resolve any issues
Contributing to the RFP design and process to select Euronext provider for an MDM tool
Animating story mapping & conception workshops with stakeholders (data, business, lab ..)
Clearly expressing Product Backlog items, creating all necessary User Stories
Ordering the items in the Product Backlog to best achieve goals and priorities
Ensuring that User Stories are well defined & complete before embarking them in development (write specifications, tasks sequencing, tests scenarios with relevant stakeholders).
Ensuring the Data Engineering team understands items in the Product Backlog to deliver relevant technical conceptions and developments
Ensuring that the Product Backlog is visible, transparent, and clear to all, and shows what the Data Engineering team will work on next.

He / She will also be responsible for the following:

Initiate and conduct impact analysis with all relevant stakeholders and teams in the event of changes in requirements or any new requirements introduced 
Contribute to the preparation and specification of Epics and User Stories together with data, business or lab stakeholders
Identify dependencies, risks and issues across on the backlog items, and escalate to the Data Referential Sponsor when necessary
Refine user stories with business stakeholders and the data engineering team.
Administrate the User Stories with tasks and a clear definition of Done in Jira.
Support status reporting for each Business Initiative at regular intervals.
Discuss/review solution proposals from the data engineering team and translate the proposal into executable tasks.
Build functional tests with stakeholders and ensure tests are well performed before delivering any user story.
Document and communicate appropriately to his peers on all solutions he build to enable knowledge sharing.
Work closely with the Data Delivery Manager to prioritize Epics & Stories in alignment with data team directions

Profile and Skills | Profile Requirements &Experience

Master's Degree or equivalent certification in Computer Science, Information Systems, Mathematics, engineering or other appropriate academic majors or equivalent
Minimum 5 years of proven working experience as a Product Owner, Project Manager in a complex environment
Technical skills regarding data (modelling, processing, ETL solutions, data integration, data science, ..)
Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize and analyze significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy.
Strong interpersonal skills and self-directed.
Must be able to work independently and according to the priorities set by the Management.
May create training materials, templates, etc. based on trends within current implementations to enable simplification and improvisation in future implementations.
Experience with Agile (Scrum/Kanban)
Excellent English verbal and written communication skills
Customer Focus, Flexible and Team player
Focus on timely and high quality delivery with attention to details, delivery in a sustainable and maintainable way
Knowledge and experience in databases, DataMarts, Data Modelling, Data Governance, Data Security, BI tools, ETL Solutions, Data Science, DataOps.
Experience in consolidating information and creating initial report drafts, structuring them for different level of hierarchies
Strong attention to detail and excellent organization skills
Proficient in the use of Excel, Office suite, and project management tools

Euronext Values

Unity

•        We respect and value the people we work with

•        We are unified through a common purpose

•        We embrace diversity and strive for inclusion

Integrity

•        We value transparency, communicate honestly and share information openly

•        We act with integrity in everything we do

•        We don’t hide our mistakes, and we learn from them

Agility

•        We act with a sense of urgency and decisiveness

•        We are adaptable, responsive and embrace change

•        We take smart risks

Energy

•        We are positively driven to make a difference and challenge the status quo

•        We focus on and encourage personal leadership

•        We motivate each other with our ambition

Accountability

•           We deliver maximum value to our customers and stakeholders

•           We take ownership and are accountable for the outcome

•           We reward and celebrate performance

We remain committed to providing a positive hiring and onboarding experience for our candidates during these unprecedented times. Where our offices can open safely, they will remain open; otherwise our employees are able to work efficiently from home. The well-being of our employees, their families, our external partners and visitors is our upmost priority and we are closely following Government guidance in all our locations to ensure all health and safety guidance are met.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate against individuals on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, or any other legally protected factor. We value the unique talents of all our people, who come from diverse backgrounds with different personal experiences and points of view and we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect.

Additional Information

This job description is only describing the main activities within a certain role and is not exhaustive. It does not prevent to add more tasks, projects.      

Summary

Location: Paris

Type: Full time